Manuel Orozco

Associate

Manuel Orozco has been in the Environmental-Architectural profession for 50 years and prides himself that it is 3 years longer than he has been married.

Orozco sees the profession of architecture as providing many opportunities and believes he has contributed to the firms he has been associated with because of his experience. Orozco maintains that one has to keep an open mind to most ideas and requests – but in the end only the good ones will be valuable and will fit in the schematic, design development, construction documents and construction process. Orozco’s experience with how buildings are physically put together was gained at various architectural and structural engineering firms. QDG has provided the opportunity to develop a team approach to producing quality construction documents for clients.

Manuel Orozco served on the California Coastal Commission, which handles coastal matters and is a permit authority dealing with commercial and residential development. He served on the Santa Monica Mountains Compressive Planning Commission, a committee responsible for new state parks appropriations, where as chairman he presided over impending development and various other issues. Orozco supported the passage of the Conservancy Bill to continue the park and open space Acquisition Program. Orozco also served as president of the Los Angeles County-Wide Citizen Planning Council and as a member, he served on the Housing Committee, Transportation Committee and Open Space Resource and Conservation Committee.

He attended California Polytechnic University, Pomona, School of Environmental Design and Architecture, and Azusa Pacific University, receiving Bachelor of Science Degrees and was the recipient of the Wright Award for outstanding senior in environmental design and architecture.